In the Press...
1) Newsweek article, December 12, 2005 Cutting Edge
Medical progress is measured in many ways. As robotic surgery comes of age, Katrina's victims struggle to find the most basic care. A look ahead."They didn't believe any of it," Menon says of some peers. "It just seemed too good to be true." But a year later, Dr. Thomas Ahlering, chief of urological oncology at the University of California, Irvine Medical Center, published similar findings in the journal Urology using 120 of his own patients. And the tide began to turn." Dr. Menon and a few others showed excellent results with the da Vinci, and then they showed that their results are reproducible," says Dr. Reza Ghavamian, director of urologic oncology at New York's Montefiore Medical Center… "There's no question this [system] has revolutionized the surgery."
2) Orange County Register article, December 13, 2007 Call him Dr. Robot, the man who saves lives with machines
Man's best friend in operating room sometimes has a mechanical arm. Dr. Thomas Ahlering uses and helps with the development of the da Vinci robot, which he relies on for about 200 prostate surgeries each year.
3) Los Angeles Daily News June 15, 2008 Macdonald rid of an annoyance -- prostate cancer
... procedure two years ago, Macdonald saw Dr. Thomas Ahlering of the UC Irvine Medical Center to undergo the new high-tech robotic surgery in early May. ...
4) Renal & Urology News | World Review for Urologists & Nephrologists February 3, 2009 Cooling May Improve RALP Outcomes
Pelvic cooling during robot-assisted radical prostatectomy (RALP) may improve urological outcomes, according to researchers at the University of California at Irvine (UCI)....
